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- DictionaryRe·cur·rent/rəˈkərənt/
adjective
- 1. occurring often or repeatedly: "she had a recurrent dream about falling"
- 2. (of a nerve or blood vessel) turning back so as to reverse direction: "the recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion"
Recurrent means something that happens repeatedly. The word recurrent comes from a Latin word meaning "to return or come back." A recurrent dream, good or bad, keeps coming back. You'll hear this word used often about abstract things like dreams, thoughts, and in literature, themes.
1. happening or tending to happen again or repeatedly. 2. (Anatomy) anatomy (of certain nerves, branches of vessels, etc) turning back, so as to run in the opposite direction. reˈcurrently adv. reˈcurrence n.
4 days ago · (rɪkʌrənt , US -kɜːr- ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A recurrent event or feeling happens or is experienced more than once. Race is a recurrent theme in the work. ...buildings in which staff suffer recurrent illness. Synonyms: periodic, continued, regular, repeated More Synonyms of recurrent. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
/rɪˈkɜːrənt/ that happens again and again. recurrent infections. recurrent costs. Poverty is a recurrent theme in her novels. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin. Take your English to the next level. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
Appearing or occurring again or periodically. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Turning back in the opposite direction. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Recurring time after time. The patient complained of recurrent chest pain. Wiktionary. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) Non- transient. Wiktionary. Synonyms:
1. repeated; persistent, intermittent. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: recurrent /rɪˈkʌrənt/ adj. happening or tending to happen again or repeatedly. (of certain nerves, branches of vessels, etc) turning back, so as to run in the opposite direction. reˈcurrently adv reˈcurrence n.
re· cur· ring ri-ˈkər-iŋ. -ˈkə-riŋ. Synonyms of recurring. : occurring repeatedly : happening or appearing multiple times. a recurring dream. recurring themes in an artist's work. He had missed 21 games with recurring back problems during the season and felt he had taken undue heat for it. Austin Murphy. recurringly adverb.
